ALL IN With CHRIS HAYES, introduced a new format for his MSNBC show on Friday’s, with a live studio audience, from Rockefeller Center, and it’s damn good. Masha Gessen, Columnist, at the The New Yorker, was a guest today. Gessen shared a moment of clarity, experienced after the 2016 “election” of Donald Trump, then Gessen wrote Autocracy: Rules For Survival
Rule #1
Believe the autocrat.
Rule # 2
Do not be taken in by small signs of normality.
Rule # 3
Institutions will not save you.
Rule # 4
Be outraged.
Rule # 5
Don’t make compromises.
Rule # 6
Remember the future.
Masha Gessen, The New York Review of Books, November 10, 2016